☃(xn--n3h.net)

142 pointsby arthurkvor 18 Jahren0 comments

http://☃.net/

37 comments

nickbvor 18 Jahren

http://www.♂.com/

http://www.♀.com/

http://www.☯.com/

http://www.☺.com/

http://www.☼.com/

http://www.♫.com/

Just some from my bookmarks...

jonkneevor 18 Jahren

He should start a webmail service--imagine trying to give out an email address @☃.net.

tdavisvor 18 Jahren

"Yeah, my e-mail address is tom at indifferent-snowman-wearing-a-fez.net"

netcanvor 18 Jahren

The email address formerly known as gmail.

And then maybe, a few years down the line 'the address'

mcormiervor 18 Jahren

I hereby declare this historic event the start of Web 3.0 ;)

netcanvor 18 Jahren

Well, we have a crash. Why not have a web 3.0?

Everyone from now on can have smiley face domain names.

tdavisvor 18 Jahren

3.0? That's doing a great disservice to Indifferent Snowman Wearing Fez! This is at least Web 42.0

antiismistvor 18 Jahren

how do you register a domain name with a unicode character in it?

ivankvor 18 Jahren

It's really just http://xn--n3h.net/

http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?in... converted it to PUNYCODE.

Your browser needs support for IDN to make this work; in Firefox it's the option network.enableIDN

petercoopervor 18 Jahren

Anyone else noticed how rather rude that character looks at a small size when viewing on the HN front page? ;-)

reazalunvor 18 Jahren

Why is that the same unicode character, in the same machine, can has two (or maybe more) different designs? Check this screenshot: http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqntj.jpg

(FF, Windows XP)

shirovor 18 Jahren

Unicode specifies a "character", which is somewhat an abstract entity and is different from "glyph", which is a visual representation of the character. One character can be mapped to different glyphs. Usually glyphs are determined by fontset. In your case I assume glyphs of the snowman character in the fontset for the text entry and in the fontset for the text display are different.

It is a common experience for East Asians; the same CJK kanji character sometimes has different glyphs for Chinese and Japanese. It is still quite a hassle to fix all fontset to show them right (I gave up.)

ivankiriginvor 18 Jahren

I remember reading how paypal.com with unicode was a big problem for a while.

ivankiriginvor 18 Jahren

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/unicode_url_ha...

mynameisherevor 18 Jahren

Am I missing the joke here?

dill_dayvor 18 Jahren

I'm sort of confused as well it was kind of cool and amusing but I don't really understand why it has had so many votes all day...

compayvor 18 Jahren

Yes.

mynameisherevor 18 Jahren

So...what's the joke?

davidwvor 18 Jahren

Something about this site jumping the shark.

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

netcanvor 18 Jahren

it's very funny

mynameisherevor 18 Jahren

lulz I get it now!!

iigsvor 18 Jahren

That snowman is a real square.

For me on Windows XP:

Google Chrome: Square (Fail)

IE7: Square (Fail)

Opera 9.52: Snowman (Pass)

Firefox 2.x: Snowman (Pass)

I don't know a lot about unicode, does anyone know if there is a solution to the "I'm doing the obvious wrong thing by rendering an incorrect glyph" problem? It seems like it would be pretty cool to have rendering engines report back code points that they were unable to render, allowing the application to signal to the user that something is wrong, or even better yet, offer to launch a service to find a font that has that code point.

xccxvor 18 Jahren

we're pre alpha testing a practical application of unicode if anyone's interested.. the tool uses intertubes to help ourselves learn more language.. it'll get better when we learn how to incorporate IDN.. no, we're not that smart yet, but yes, we are open source :)

wmfvor 18 Jahren

I thought Arc didn't support Unicode. Maybe it just passes through.

ivankvor 18 Jahren

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100

aaronswvor 18 Jahren

That's the beauty of UTF-8.

jrockwayvor 18 Jahren

Until you treat the string as a list of characters instead of as a list of octets. Then you corrupt your data horribly.

aaronswvor 18 Jahren

That's the horror of UTF-8.

cruxvor 18 Jahren

At text size it looks more like BADGER TRIUMPHANT.

apgwozvor 18 Jahren

On a different note, I guess this means arc now supports unicode? I haven't been keeping up with the latest.

charlesjuvor 18 Jahren

lol this is so cool, i had no idea unicode was so "creative"

jmtamevor 18 Jahren

☃ FTW

CUVipervor 18 Jahren

Would have been cooler using UTF-8 in the source. HTML escape feels like cheating.

E2 98 83 FTW

steadicatvor 18 Jahren

Here's an example of the snowman with UTF-8: http://unicoders.org/.

DavidSJvor 18 Jahren

So I guess this is it for Hacker News?

ezmobiusvor 18 Jahren

thats a killer domain name ;)